Combination prevention combines behavioral, biomedical, and structural interventions to address both the immediate risks and underlying causes of vulnerability to HIV infection, as well as the pathways that link them [ 41].
We also describe the rationale for combination prevention approaches that may combine PrEP with other prevention modalities as part of a larger prevention package.
If taken to scale with resources and urgency, these core components of combination prevention, along with other key prevention interventions, can save lives, prevent new infections and lower the price tag for the global AIDS response over the long term.
Combination prevention is the future.
HIV combination prevention / Diseases 20.
The watchword now is "combination prevention" to go along with combination therapy.
The administration's AIDS plan involves a "combination prevention strategy," relying on three main interventions: *Ending mother-to-child transmission of the disease (through drug treatment during pregnancy).
"SMC is a core part of effective, evidence-based combination prevention, and the policymakers who ignore that are exposing their own lack of commitment to ending the epidemic and saving lives.
With more than 7,400 new infections of H.I.V., which causes AIDS, reported daily, "condoms are an essential part of combination prevention," the agency, Unaids, said Thursday in a statement issued from its Geneva headquarters.
This methodology will be particularly useful for designing RCTs aimed at evaluating combination prevention interventions in community-based RCTs, wherein an intervention׳s effectiveness is challenging to predict.
So-called combination prevention, a mixture of condoms, drug treatment (which also stops transmission of the virus), stopping mother-to-child transmission and circumcising men (which reduces their chance of getting infected by two-thirds), is working.
